Young Couple Playing Chess

Lithophane, porcelain, smear glazed, showing a young couple in 18th century dress playing chess on a terrace; impressed mark 'PPM' and pattern number 609 on back, made by the Plauesche Porzellanmanufactur, Plaue, Thuringia, Germany, third quarter of the 19th century.

Purchased with the assistance of the V&A Purchase Grant Fund